Analyzing Noldeke's Viewpoint about Prophecy and Revelation

The book “the Quran History”is the most important writing of the orientalists about the Quran and the history of the Islam History. The writer of this book¡ Noldeke¡ is an eminent orientalist who has written books in different fields of orientalism. The above-mentioned book which is his most important work in this regard includes topics such as revelation studies¡ collection and compilation of the Quran as well as the date of the revelation of verses and surahs of the Quran that the paper deals with the topics of the first type. From Noldeke’s viewpoint¡ the nature of prophecy relies on four principles including: having connection with the previous prophets¡ adherence to emotional instinct¡ using imagination in receiving revelation¡ and creating social changes. This type of viewpoint toward the nature of prophecy which is related to the theory of religious experience about revelation¡ in addition to being out of the essence of the teachings of the divine religions¡ is in opposition with Islamic religious thought and faces some problems within each one of these principles.